Table 5e.

Summary of performance analysis studies in padel

Nº	Study	Sample	Variables	Main result
22	Sánchez-Alcaraz et al. (2022c)	1927 points from 14 matches (7 men and 7 women) WPT, the last shot was counted, 654 winners and 1273 errors, made by 32 players (16 women and 16 men)	- Effectiveness: winning shot and error - Area of the court - Result of the match - Winning and losing pair - Importance of the point - Type of stroke: indirect or direct	The smash is the stroke that produces the most winning points (43%) along with volleys (28.4%), While the lob is the one that produces the least (0.03%). Groundstrokes are the strokes with most errors (30.2%), followed by volleys (30.2%) and lobs (14.8%). Lobs and groundstrokes have more errors than winners and smashes more winners than errors. 56% of the winning shots are made at the net. 42% of the errors are made on the baseline. Winning pair achieves 20% more winners than errors. Losing pair commits 12% more errors than winning shots.
23	Ramón-Llín et al. (2022)	2110 game actions corresponding to the penultimate and last stroke, 1055 points from 9 games of the first Spanish national category of male players	- Court area - Stroke: number and direction - Type of stroke: indirect or direct - Effectiveness: winning stroke, error and continuity - Side of play - Result of the match	64.1% of the penultimate stroke is on the baseline and the last stroke, 60% is on the net. There are 20% more cross court strokes than down-the-line shot in the last two strokes of the point. There is 10 and15% more participation of the player on the left in the penultimate and the last stroke of the point, respectively. At the net, 82.7% of the winning points are hit against 46.5% of the total errors. The winning pair makes 48.1% of errors in the baseline and the losing pair makes 58.4%.
24	Muñoz et al. (2022)	419 sets and 838 games from 100 men's and 74 women's matches from 15 WPT tournaments	- Game round - Gender - Number of sets and game - Percentage of games decided by the golden point - Result of the match - Number of gold points won	In men's padel, the number of games in the second set is higher. The number of gold points in the second set is higher than in the third set regardless of the round. The winning pair earns more gold points. Girls win more gold points than boys. In the female category there is more equality in the score and a higher percentage of golden points. There is no difference in the gold point per round and match, but there is a difference in the percentage of games decided by the gold point. As the rounds progress, the men's padel is more equal with respect to the set score.
25	Escudero-Tena et al. (2022a)	5513 points (2645 men's and 2868 women's) corresponding to 91 sets from 38 WPT quarterfinals, semi-finals and finals	- Category: male and female - Type of finishinner and error - Type of the stroke - Number of strokes	Men make 51.6% winners, with the smash (30.6%), forehand volley (14.2%) and backhand volley (15.6%) winning the most. Women get 48.4% of winners with the forehand volley (21.9%), smash (20.7%) and bandeja (15.7%). Male errors total 42.6%, the backhand volley (17.6%) and forehand (17.0%) are predominant. Women make 57.4% of errors with the bandeja (16.5%) and forehand volley (15.3%) as predominant. More points are won between the 6th and the 10th stroke, the longer the point the probability of winning decreases. Between the stroke 1 and 5, more errors are made, yet their number decreases as the number of strokes increases.
26	Escudero-Tena et al. (2022b)	2759 points (1432 male and 1327 female) from 395 matches in six World Padel Tour tournaments	- Gender - Importance of the point - Type of the stroke: indirect or direct - Effectiveness: winning stroke and error	The smash is the most frequent last shot in men's padel (36.6%) and women's padel (31.8%). In key moments, boys make more bandejas and smashes than groundstrokes. Boys make more errors and more winning points. More errors are made on the golden point in groundstrokes. More errors are made in non-key and key moments, but less in the golden point. In both genders, the most common errors are wall strokes. More errors are made than winning shots in both genders.